A guy who thinks the sun shines out of his partner's ass doesn't have to be automatically dismissed as not worth a person's time. Boundaries are a good thing, not an obstacle in the way of true, magical love. There are plenty of great things about the film, as long as viewers refrain from ever, ever watching it as a guide to healthy relationships. If you swapped up the soundtrack here to something a touch less schmaltzy, as the trailer above proves, Sleepless In Seattle would be a horror movie. Convince your fiancee to take you to New York on Valentine's Day so you can go meet the stranger you're infatuated with. Travel across the country to go hang around outside his house. Ignore all professional journalism ethics and use your work computer to look up his home address. Write a letter proposing that you two complete strangers meet at the top of the Empire State Building on Valentine's Day. Fall obsessively head over heels from nothing more than his voice and his words. So, what is the model of love that the movie offers up as the ideal? Listen to a guy spilling his guts on the radio. A rom-com about Walter and Victoria getting together after being brutally jilted by their partners is the rom-com you know would be a thousand times healthier than this one. This makes both Sam and his son physically cringe. She's a little nervous, she laughs too long at the architect's jokes, and her laugh is a bit weird. Her crime against humanity? She's really into Sam, basically. Guys, this isn't infidelity, but it's definitely edging into that territory.Ĭan we now take a second to consider the one way Sam absolutely is Annie's soulmate? Like Annie and Walter, Sam is also not very nice to Victoria, the woman he briefly dates. She hires a private detective to investigate Sam. If we're being really technical about it, she starts engaging in the affair long before they break up. Does the blonde set him free? Spoiler alert: No. If this is really all the film can come up with to make us hate Bill Pullman's character, this sucks.īut OK, maybe Annie's just not feeling it, and, in that case, she should set this complete keeper free so he can go pursue his happily ever after with someone who's as crazy about him as Annie clearly is about tragic widowers on the radio. Oh, yeah, also, he's hopelessly devoted to Annie. But what exactly is so bad about the Baltimore Sun reporter's fiancé? The dude can't dance. He's the one obstacle in the way of Annie finding true love. He's set up as the guy we're meant to eye roll at. However, that doesn't mean its morals are in the right place. It's a '90s cult classic that people are still tweeting about almost a quarter of a century later. The unforgettable Meg Ryan rom-com has a 72 percent Rotten Tomato rating. It features (in no particular order): an argument being made for treating perfectly nice romantic partners/potential partners like trash advocating for choosing a voice on the radio instead of the guy you've been in a relationship with for a long time and, oh yeah, a weirdly supportive attitude toward stalking. All the same, sorry to say, Sleepless In Seattle is the most toxic rom-com ever. Yes, Sleepless In Seattle boasts two of the '90s most talented rom-com thespians, and it was co-written by real life word witch Nora Ephron.
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